Gandalf! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him,
and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be
prepared for any sort I of remarkable tale. Tales and adventures
sprouted up all over the place wherever he went, in the most
extraordinary fashion. He had not been down that way under The Hill for
ages and ages, not since his friend the Old Took died, in fact, and the